Last night, the American Spectator — a right-wing magazine known for its role in the “Arkansas Project,” a well-funded effort to invent stories with the goal of eventually impeaching President Clinton — held its annual gala fundraising event.

You needed to "invent stories" to find a reason to impeach President Clinton?

All you needed was a pretty little whore in a short skirt. Thong optional.

It found that a “cohesive” conservative majority of Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Kennedy favored the position of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest big business lobby, over 80% of the time.

It found that a “cohesive” conservative majority of Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Kennedy favored the position of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest big business lobby, over 80% of the time.

Actually, it is surprising that the Chamber of Commerce would have been ruled against as much as 20 percent of the time. What was the point in our investing in all these brown shirts and going to stomping practice night and day if we are not getting better results from our bought and paid for supreme court in cases involving our super secret fund raising apparatus?

In addition to being neurotic and projecting all those neuroses, they're also paranoid - "Spectator publisher Al Regnery helps lead a secretive group of conservatives called the 'Conservative Action Project'".

Oh, yes. A secret cabal, masterminded by ruthless, evil white men, driven by hate, racism, xenophobia, and sexism, with unlimited funds gained off the backs of the suffering poor and the victimized middle class, meeting by the dark of the moon, plotting to bring down Progressivism.

He's “open[ing] the floodgates for special interests, [not] including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”

See, he wants folks to know that he's only opening the domestic floodgates. And, it's not like he's very influential on our lives, i.e. he's no Soros, aka spooky dude. So, back to the uber-powerful Soros....

I'm sure this just looks bad, but is really just another coincidence. It could be Clarence Thomas wife’s goals exactly match the Koch agenda. Her husband’s Supreme Court ruling prevents us from actually knowing of course.

If you had your tin foil hat on, one could argue the Citizens United case wasn't about making Hillary films at all, that it was all about subverting campaign finance laws altogether knowing they had Supreme Court Justices already in the bag. Nahhhh!

If you had your tin foil hat on, one could argue the Citizens United case wasn't about making Hillary films at all, that it was all about subverting campaign finance laws altogether knowing they had Supreme Court Justices already in the bag. Nahhhh!

Those familiar with Garbage's methods will not be the tiniest bit surprised to see that "this meeting with industrialists, right wing media types, US Chamber of Commerce reps, and Supreme Court justices" did not in fact include any Supreme Court justices.

garage mahal wrote: ...a “cohesive” conservative majority of Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Kennedy favored the position of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest big business lobby, over 80% of the time.

Since the Chamber of Commerce is legal and correct in its dealings 98.5% of the time, then it stands to reason a bias claim can be made about that 18.5% shortfall

Where do liberals they get their demand for equality of Court decisions favoring private rights and private property with an equal number of Court decisions favoring an end to the evils of private rights and private property? Answer: In the Communist Manifesto.

Maybe Scalia and Thomas just both like gondola rides. I'm sure they attend meetings with liberal activists too.

OK. Let's repeat the very accurate statement of another poster this morning.

Both political parties have boatloads of money.

And, both political parties have partisans on the Supreme Court.

Now, are you happy, garage.

I once work for one of the richest corporate law firms in the world. Their per-partner profit and salary was the highest in the world.

That firm is a stalwart financial supporter of every imaginable Democratic candidate and cause. In fact, one of the firm's former partners played a key role in managing algore's presidential campaign and in the litigation over the results.

The ChiTown thug occupying our White House on behalf of George Soros has been sending dead horse heads to the SCOTUS for over a year now. His next trick will be to fight the evil Congress. That Pot of Gold they want is still the energy/CO2 stranglehold Obama wants us to buy back out of the jail Obama and his Czars have put it into.

Soros throws around a couple million a year = bad/evilButFox throws around a couple million a year = yawn

Soros throws around a couple million a year = bad/evilBut Corporations throw around tens (hundreds?) of millions = yawn

Soros throws around a couple million a year = bad/evilButJustices and/or their spouses raise money to influence the other two branches of government = yawn

So obviously, it would be best -- from the con perspective -- to have Soros replace Alito, and then provide Alito w/ a couple million a year to throw around, since doing so has an extraordinary impact on our country.

I'm guessing that you could find some libs who would fund this deal, even though they'd be foolish to do so, if you believe the Republican math. Maybe Soros would make you Rs happy by paying two million a year to put himself on the court. Then Alito will be free to really influence our country. And, Soros will be safely contained on the Supreme Court.

I would love to see somebody go through several decades of Supreme Court opinions and see how much the decisions agree with the stated preferences of the Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO, ADA, ACA, NAACP, etc. It might be fascinating. Alas, one data point doesn't tell you much.

We expect some impartiality from Justices and that their decisions are based on a rational reading of the law.

We do not expect them to be actively engaged partisan fighters. however, that is exactly what we have from the Republican Supreme Court Justices:

* Alito fundraises for numerous hard line conservative outfits.

* Scalia and Thomas speak at meetings organized by billionaire conservative oilmen (Koch Brothers) who fund the Tea Party and the Federalist Society, which is working to reshape our courts to serve conservative dogma.

* Thomas' wife is raising funds for her new Tea Party group, even as she makes public arguments about, for example, the constitutionality of the health care law.

If these activities are not in violation of an ethics standard, they should be. This is outrageous behavior and you conservatives would be gnashing your teeth if the situation were reversed (as you should).

Glenn Beck's description of George Soros' actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top. For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say – inaccurately – that there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, as part of a broader assault on Mr. Soros, that's horrific.

While I, too, may disagree with many of Soros' views and analysis on the issues, to bring in this kind of innuendo about his past is unacceptable. To hold a young boy responsible for what was going on around him during the Holocaust as part of a larger effort to denigrate the man is repugnant.

The Holocaust was a horrific time, and many people had to make excruciating choices to ensure their survival. George Soros has been forthright about his childhood experiences and his family's history, and there the matter should rest.

It is definitely creepy how the US right wing demonizes a fellow who is a) Jewish, b) a banker/financier and c) international (I'll leave it to you guys to add "hook nosed"). George Soros is an American and he has the right to speak out as he sees fit.

George Soros is no American. He is a communist who has learned to manipulate free markets to try and destroy capitalism. Seriously, all the innocent jews who were killed and suffered under the Nazis and this scum made it through alive. How much better would the planet be if Anne Frank had survived World War II instead?

the Court's conservative bloc has shown little respect for precedent, whether long-standing or recent, with some decisions reversed for no apparent reason other than a change in the composition of the Court.

"Judicial activism" is often in the eye of the beholder. If, as I have suggested here, we can identify red flags for judicial activism, the conservative bloc on the current Supreme Court is flying all of those flags. Let's hope that this term sees a renewal of the best traditions of the Court, not merely the imposition on our Republic of the ideological or political will of a determined, but bare, majority of the justices.

This Supreme Court is a corrupt sham. Fundraising for right wing attack groups and magazines is an open rejection of judicial restraint and ethics.

Real bad and faulty logic on your part. It is possible to spend loads of money and lose an election as your examples demonstrate. That can be done by saying stupid things, doing stupid things and using your money to demonstrate that you are nothing like the average voters.

Which is exactly what Whiteman and McMahon did. They were bad candidates who only won as many votes as they did due to their wealth.

Meanwhile, you have self-financed Ron Johnson who refused most media interviews and knocked off a popular Senator. The guy is an empty suit with no ideas.

See, also, the Republican takeover of the House, made possible by the flood of money opened up by the very Republican Supreme Court Justices in that 5-4 decision.

More basic Lem, if advertising doesn't work, why do corporations spend billions on it? (Because it works - most of the time!)

"Or whatever happened to RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD concerns the week before the election?"

That was real. In Alaska. But don't worry, Joe Miller is on the case .

He's fighting for the voters by challenging folks who used overly loop "u"s, or a cursive "r" while the rest of the name was printed. And, thankfully he's fighting to disqualify voters who added ", Republican" after Murkowski's name. We need more papa-grizzlies like Miller to suss out this voter fraud, so we can take back America.

@ALHe's also a capitalist, as demonstrated by his wealth that he has earned in the capitalist system.

Earned it, eh? As a currency speculator Soros has made a fortune breaking currencies. Perhaps you don't recall Black Wednesday? Soros walked away with a Billion and the UK financial system in tatters. Soros is far from a numbers-only speculator. He looks in-depth at a country and tries to spot errors in valuation; political policies in particular draw his interest. Active in philanthropy focused on bringing about political change, Soros also uses his currency positions to "punish" countries where his favored policies are ignored, see Georgia.

His Quantum Fund is the largest hedge fund - which specializes in highly leveraged,* high-risk, short-term speculation that fuels market instability. Soros is a member of Bilderberg Group and invests with Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. Carlyle Capital invested $6.6 billion in Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae paper.

So tell me how he differs from "greedy Wall Streeters and American banksters?

Soros Fund Management LLC, opened Hong Kong headquarters this month. What a co-winky-dink now that a second round of quantitative easing and low interest rates in the U.S. will inevitably drive up local currencies and asset prices.

Get it yet?

Soros is playing the American left for a fool and you sold out for what amounts to chump change for Soros.